bobbydazzla

That was the whole point of the post. To come across like a prat. You of all people must realise that.

There was a VAR Result = Nonce gif. And I posted another gif Sleep Tight Ya Pervert and an “xG never lies” post immediately after Villa lost. That’s not derailing discussion and it didn’t need a “yawn” response from you either. The VAR Result = Nonce is a magnificent gif and got plenty of likes. The deployment was exemplary, if I do say so myself. I don’t think I’ve been on any anti-stat crusades for weeks now. Certainly none of any significance, I’ve been happily letting the nonces have their fun. I’ve been way too busy complaining about match tickets and match atmosphere.

Indeed. Could be a few reasons. Might just be down to luck. Teams might have got wise and are keeping Villa’s best long range shooters away from the ball. Might be playing teams with better quality keepers. And so on. Lots to debate.

There are also stats that showed that the Villa “worldies” were actually much better chances than xG gives them credit for. I read an entire article on it and posted about it in here. It was interesting to read up on it. They were creating clear sights of goal from distance for players who have excellent long range shooting ability. And that’s how they were scoring goals. It wasn’t a worldie when you looked at how the long range chance was created, who took the shot and who the opposition defenders and keeper were.

I didn’t ruin any discussion. I put a gif of the “VAR Decision - Stat Nonce” because it’s funny and you replied “yawn” whilst plenty of others saw it for what it was, a daft gif. So because you’d been rude to me, I thought I’d poke fun at your “false position” comment. And if someone posts something and someone offers a different opinion, who gives a fuck. The same few people are constantly telling me Michelle Collins isn’t sexy and do I bitch and moan about it and tell them to create their own “anti-Michelle Collins thread”. People post stats, people reply, just because I don’t like stats I’m not allowed to reply ? Don’t be so precious about your beloved stats

Start a Stat Nonces thread where you can talk about things that shoulda, woulda, coulda happened and keep your predictive nonsense out of the Other Games thread because it’s boring as fuck

@El Prontonise You better not be out on your bike, I need you locked & loaded and prepared to engage the enemy. There’s stat nonces making their way towards our foxhole armed with their latest spreadsheet artillery

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there’s no such thing as a false position. Am I in a false position because I deserve Michelle Collins as my mistress and DM her on Insta all the time, but she never replies. Nope, Michelle Collins isn’t my mistress because I’ve never snogged Michelle Collins.

xG never lies

He’s Good

Fuck Wolves, biggest jumbo LED pyro bell whiffs in the history of the scourge of modern football But also Fuck Billa

Never heard of him

I fucking despise everything about Wolverhampton Wanderers. But top of the list of all the things I despise about them are the jumbo LED’s and pyro. Not content with being by far the shittest team in the league they’ve decided to jazz up how shite they are with massive dancing adverts and fire. Cunts.

Appreciate the tip but I’d rather pay full whack than visit Dalton Park, it’s crawling with rancid makems. The place absolutely reeks and anytime someone speaks within earshot it’s like fingers being dragged down a blackboard

Already tickets on Seatpick for the home leg at £1,000,000 per ticket and prices expected to rise

Just dropping this in here, ahead of the Barca tickets going on sale. Happy Friday y'all ! Membership costs £40 per year (one‑off). Each event has 10,000 tickets via random ballot and 5,000 via online queue. In the online queue, a member can buy up to 6 tickets per membership. Tickets cost £50–£80 and resell for £150–£350. There are 19 events per year. Tickets are transferable, with no ID required. Memberships are unlimited with no ID required. The queue can be gamed using multiple browsers/bots. Economic impact The £40 annual fee spread across 19 events is about £2 per event, so it barely affects per‑event economics. If a tout secures 6 tickets in the queue: Total cost per batch: Tickets: £300–£480 Plus ~£2 effective membership allocation ≈ £302–£482 total Potential resale revenue (6 tickets): At £150 → £900 At £250 → £1,500 At £350 → £2,100 Potential profit per successful queue entry: Low resale case → ~£420 Mid resale case → ~£1,000 High resale case → ~£1,600 With: 19 attempts per year Two buying routes (ballot + queue) High resale margins Ability to scale memberships This structure remains very economically attractive to organised touts, particularly at scale.

If the way the ticket numbers were distributed was significantly different, then the process was significantly different. 82% of 15,000 going in the ballot is significantly different to normal. They could have put a single solitary ticket in the general sale and by definition they’ve followed “the same process as for every other game”. But in the real world, they haven’t actually done the same thing that they do for every game have they. I could tell my lass when I get home that I "followed the same process" because I walked into the pub and ordered 5 pints. But quite rightly she’ll want to know whether I drank all 5 pints myself, or it was 1 for me, 3 for the bar staff and 1 for my dog. Or something like that. I've said this many times, it's the smoke & mirrors and snidey behind the scenes changes that are infuriating. For me, that's more infuriating than not getting a ticket.

I'd calculated that only 2,500ish tickets were available on Monday and that's turned out to be the case. Just call me Inspector Dazzla the Stat Master. And I'd already had that detailed info just before the Trust published it, so I'd mulled it over and my immediate questions to NUFC would be: Why didn't NUFC communicate the changes to members ? And why post-sale did NUFC insist when questioned that the process and distribution was the same as every other sale. Why do they think touts don't use the ballot ? It'd be by far the easiest way for a tout to get tickets. Have they investigated the accounts of people who bought in the general sale ? For 400 members at the front of the queue to all have 6 x linked accounts and all buy their max. allowance feels very unusual.

Need to bung some brown envelopes to the Catalan Health & Safety Authorities to keep it at 45,000 Fewer fans in there, the better for us.

Camp Nou only at 45,000 capacity currently innit